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Henderson has lost his job at the company he has worked at for thirty years. He confronts his boss, Martin Boyd, who is sympathetic but doesn't understand the reality of unemployment for his workers.
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This play is Act 1 Scene 3, of a three-act play entitled 'Are You Ready, Comrade?' which was lost during the 1950s.
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A dramatisation of "the political awakening of a guilt stricken bourgeois woman, married to a wealthy capitalist engineer, who has a Communist brother who oversees her enlightenment, and wins her love."
Source: Nicole Moore, "The Burdens Twain or Not Forgetting Yourself: The Writing of Betty Roland's Life," Hecate 18, no. 1 (1992): 6.
